[Wikimedia-l] : WMF resolution on neutral point of view

[とある白い猫]

Indeed larger wikis have vibrant local communities that uphold NPOV for the
most part. Such wikis would not be affected by such a board resolution too
much as they essentially upload NPOV anyways.

Smaller developing wikis on the other hand sometimes have people who even
want to create policies that ban the notion of NPOV. We even had attempts
of religious rules dictate content on ace.wikipedia for example. I would
recommend against translating en.wikipedia's NPOV policy for such wikis as
it is too complicated for a smaller wiki. Over time the wiki would develop
the policy using such a board resolution as a guideline.

  -- とある白い猫  (To Aru Shiroi Neko)


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:48 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> ...
> > I, for one, share your perception that NPOV is a problem on some (perhaps
> > most) Wikipedias,
>
> asaf, could you please elaborate a little bit what you mean by this?
> do you not share the experience that the editors were able to come up
> with reasonable and well thought out rules they follow, since
> wikipedia exists? and many of the rules were discussed. and most of
> them discussed again? isn't this one of the cores which made wikipedia
> so successful?
>
> rupert.
>
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